Question : Wake on LAN issue

Hi

We have about 35 workstation running Windows 2000 Pro on a network running Windows 2003 AD. All workstation hardware is less than a year old.

We would like to schedule a weekly virus scan in the night. Since most the workstations are powered off at the end of day, I was wondering if there is quick and easy way to use the 'wake on lan' feature to power on these workstations remotely using a script or schedule before kicking off the virus scan.

Thanks

Answer : Wake on LAN issue

http://www.gammadyne.com/cmdline.htm#wol

The above is a copy of the WOL.EXE.

Download the above WOL.EXE.  Save it to the Machine you will be running the script on.  Now write a batch file, Batch file should look something like this.

c:\wol.exe 5c9d32b5f287
c:\wol.exe 6c3a12b6f242
etc...

Where C:\Wol.exe is the location you saved the wol.exe and 5c9d32b5f287 are the computers MAC Addresses.  You can the schedule the bat file to run under scheduled tasks at a set time to wake up the machines.

Ensure your NICs Supports Wake on LAn and that it is enabled in BIOS.

Note:  Your computer does not need to be in stanby mode or suspend mode.  It can be turned off and the script will turn them on.

GOod luck